Inherence heuristic versus essentialism: Issues of antecedence and cognitive mechanism

Yzerbyt, Vincent;Demoulin, Stéphanie
(2014) Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary — Vol. 37, n° 5, p. 505-506 (2014)

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We argue (1) that the empirical evidence offered by the authors is insufficient to sustain their claim; (2) that, beyond methodological problems, the proposed underlying cognitive mechanism is largely speculative and that a reverse, more motivational, path is equally plausible; and (3) that the distinction and antecedence of inherence intuitions with respect to essentialist beliefs remain to be demonstrated.
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Yzerbyt, V., & Demoulin, S. (2014). Inherence heuristic versus essentialism: Issues of antecedence and cognitive mechanism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary, 37(5), 505-506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13003919 (Original work published 2014)